Category: Buddhism

Maitreya CLASSIFICATION: Buddha Maitreya, Buddha of the Future, the essence of love and compassion will be the successor to our Buddha Shakyamuni. (Maitreya will be…

Daibutsu (great Buddha) In Japanese Buddhist art, name given to several large bronze images of the Buddhas; the most famous, Amida Buddha, some 49 feet,…

Dadak In Tibetan Buddhism, a guardian deity, associated with the hero and founder of Buddhism in Tibet, Padmasambhava. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend,…

Akshobhya In Mahayana Buddhism, one of the five Dhyani-Buddhas. Called the Immovable, his symbol is the thunderbolt and his mount an elephant. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of…

Agama In Mahayana Buddhism, a term used for the collection of sacred writings, roughly equivalent to the Nikaya collection of Theravada Buddhism, containing the discourses…

Adi-Buddha (first enlightened one) In Mahayana Buddhism, the primordial Buddha who “was before all,” infinite, omniscient, selfexisting, without beginning and without end. He is not,…

Abhinna In Buddhism, supernatural knowledge or insight, possessed by the Buddha and those who have been enlightened. One Buddhist text tells of the Buddha and…

Amida Buddha CLASSIFICATION: Buddha; Bosatsu Is belief enough for salvation? The answer is affirmative, according to Amida Buddha. Amida is the Japanese name for Amitabha,…

Bardo Thödol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead) Buddhist text on the art of dying. Tibetan Buddhism evolved from the shamanistic Bön into Tantric Buddhism…